The next thing you may want to do is change the time and/or date.
When KStars starts up, the time is set to your computer's system
clock, and the KStars clock is running to keep up with the real time.
If you want to stop the clock, select Stop
Clock from the Time menu, or simply
click on the Pause icon in the toolbar. You can
make the clock run slower or faster than normal, or even make it run
backward, using the time-step spinbox in the toolbar. This spinbox
has two sets of up/down buttons. The first one will step through all
83 available time steps, one by one. The second one will skip to the
next higher (or lower) unit of time, which allows you to make large
timestep changes more quickly.
You can change to any time or date by selecting Set
Time... from the Time menu, or by
pressing the time icon in the toolbar. The
Set Time window uses a standard KDE Date Picker
widget, coupled with three spinboxes for setting the hours, minutes and
seconds. If you ever need to reset the clock back to the current time,
just select Set Time to Now from the
Time menu.
Note
The current version of KStars cannot
accept dates before October 1, 1752, nor dates after the year 8000.
These are limitations of the Qt™ Date/Time class. We plan to implement
our own date/time class in a future version, which will allow for more
remote dates.